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When Climate Changes, but we do not...
Climate Change is global. Developing nations too have an essential role to play in reducing the threat. More than that as developing countries expand their economies their GHG emissions increase and by 2020 these are projected to overtake total emissions from the developed world. The Bali Action Plan, part of the agreed ‘roadmap' that is guiding the UN negotiations on a global climate agreement for the post-2012 period, recognizes the need for developing countries to enhance their action to mitigate emissions in the context of sustainable development. Deforestation in developing countries generates 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions, more than all forms of transport combined. These emissions need to be stopped and then reversed within two decades. This would also have important benefits for biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. It is important to understand these actions as perfectly feasible without jeopardizing economic growth and poverty reduction. What is needed is awareness. Why not listen from the ‘Horses Mouth'? Why not combat climate change challenges in-situ and conjointly with the climate victim community?
CRACK the Climate Threat...We can!
CRACK (Center for Community Resilience Adaptation and Climate Knowledge) is integral to the community climate-change adaptability programme of SAFE. Under this umbrella SAFE has already launched the PENTA-C (Cross Country Consortium for Climate Change) in Bhutan Bangladesh India and Nepal . Recently SAFE has conceived a more pro-community climate adaptation plan in deltaic Sunderbans. The CRACK Center would be the first of its kind in the nation to combat climate change in the disaster den of climate vulnerable Sunderbans.
CRACK objectives
The main theme behind developing CRACK is to augment community resilience and disaster preparedness being within climate vulnerable coastal areas of Sunderbans. The guiding roadmap for CRACK activities is
1. Developing Germplasm Conservation Unit and Endemic Seed Bank for natural resource management
2. Installing Referral Agricultural Cyber Center for post disaster agroenvironmental crisis management
3. Extending Capacity building facility for climate adaptive alternative livelihood
4. Preparing low cost Disaster mitigation hub with a multipurpose cyclone shelter
5. Inaugurating Delta Climate Change Observation Center and Study circle
Unique Features of CRACK
Some of the unique features integrated to the CRACK center will be:
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Resource facility for local community, participants and partners,
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Entirely driven by Green Energy with nearing Zero carbon footprints,
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Facility for Climate Change Eco-learning through Delta Tourism,
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Greenhouse, mangrove nursery and Field testing facility for Climate Resistant Crops,
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Basic meteorological record room with Disaster Early Alert System and
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Small Ecology Field Station with GIS-RS and hazard zone mapping facility
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Disaster trauma assistance Infirmary and First-Aid facility
Value addition
• The greenhouse would facilitate as field acclimatization and hardening of other tender endemic plants of the locale.
• It would generate alternative livelihood for the community people.
• It would be helpful for hands on agricultural demonstration to the community
• It would spread awareness about the significance of mangrove plantation
• It would be an attraction point for ecotourism.
Global Partnership for Local Action
SAFE invites partnership from different International and National Level Organizations for this endeavor. National Natural Resource Management Committee of NABARD, Central Inland Fisheries Research Institut, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal Green Energy Development Corporation Ltd and corporate houses like PricewaterHouseCoopers have already expressed their interests for teaming up with SAFE.
SAFE requests your valued participation for this unique enterprise.
